National Hog Farmer

ID Standards to Track Animal Health 

Nov 2, 2006

A multi-state partnership aims to establish a new standard for tracking animal health investigations, premises identification numbers and track regulatory events in the United States....

Defining Finishing Health Parameters 

Oct 15, 2006 - By John T. Waddell, DVM Sutton Veterinary Clinic Sutton, NE

Changes in the health of finishing pigs have been impacted by a variety of industry changes. Finishing health has been defined many different ways, but...

Early Finishing Management Affects Closeouts 

Oct 15, 2006 - By Mike Eisenmenger, DVM Swine Vet Center St. Peter, MN

Achieving good production numbers requires managing young pigs as soon as they hit the finishing floor. As pork producers, we all would like to sit around...

Circovirus Solutions Remain Unclear 

Sep 15, 2006 - By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

The diversity in clinical signs of porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD) has swine veterinarians perplexed in finding common themes and treatment...

Flu: It Affects You And Your Pigs 

Sep 15, 2006 - By Reed Leiting, DVM Worthington, MN

Influenza is a viral disease that affects many species of animals. The world health community continues to monitor the progress of the avian flu virus...

ID System Needs Better Focus 

Sep 7, 2006

The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) needs more focus and direction before livestock producers will accept it....

New Pig Disease Hits Philippines 

Sep 7, 2006

Porcine epidemic diarrhea syndrome (PEDS), discovered in Europe in 1969, and now widespread in European countries and China, has also killed 60,000 pigs in Batangas Province since it struck hog farms in the Philippines last June....

Postweaning Salmonella Persists 

Aug 15, 2006 - By Max Rodibaugh, DVM Frankfort, IN

Salmonellosis remains a primary disease in weaned pigs. One hundred and twenty years ago, a disease of swine that was described as hog cholera was thought...

PRRS Control Efforts Suffer Setbacks 

Aug 15, 2006 - By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Attempts to clean up porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the United States encountered some new breaks in 2006. A year ago, the Carthage...

PRRS Research Results Trickle In 

Aug 15, 2006 - By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

Almost $2 million has been spent by the National Pork Board in each of three years of funding the PRRS research initiative. The National Pork Board has...

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